Perry World House—the University of Pennsylvania’s home for global policy engagement—announces the creation of its Global Leadership Advisory Committee (GLAC). Timed to launch during the tenth anniversary of the creation of Perry World House, the Committee will meet biannually to discuss and advise on PWH’s programmatic work. The GLAC will also help expand PWH’s global…
As Perry World House celebrates ten years, our 2025–26 Year in Review highlights how our four pillars of climate, democracy, global justice and human rights, and security brought the world to Penn and Penn to the world during a year of global upheaval.
On October 7, Penn Washington, the Public Service and Policy Initiative (PSPI), and the Penn Engineering Green Team, hosted an on-campus conversation on how leaders drive climate policy at the local, state, and federal levels featuring former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, former White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi, and Penn Washington’s Director of Domestic Policy Programs (and former U.S.…
On October 9, 2026, the Perry World House Student Fellows travelled to Washington, DC, for a day full of meetings with policymakers and policy experts across a wide range of focus areas. The trip is part of the program’s field learning experience, a core pillar of the program alongside weekly seminars and a capstone policy…
Ten years after Perry World House opened its doors at Penn, the center has adapted to a changing world while retaining its founding mission. PWH opened in September 2016 following a $10 million gift three years earlier from 1977 Wharton graduate and then-Trustee Richard Perry and his wife, Lisa. Since then, the center has expanded its reach across campus…
For the third year in a row, Perry World House hosted a series of policy discussions on the margins of the UN General Assembly High Level Session and New York Climate Week that addressed the future of healthcare in Africa and humanitarian priorities for the next UN Secretary-General.
On the sidelines of the Munich Leaders Meeting in New Delhi, India, on October 4 and 5, 2026, PWH Faculty Director and Richard Perry Professor Michael C. Horowitz sat down to talk security, technology, and geopolitics with India Today Global’s Gaurav Sawant.
Perry World House (PWH) at the University of Pennsylvania and Foreign Affairs magazine are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2026 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize is Joshua A. Schwartz of Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Schwartz’s article, “Fighting for Credibility Can Destroy It,” will be published by Foreign Affairs in the coming months. “Dr. Schwartz’s article was impressive in both…
Penn Washington is pleased to welcome Amanda Catanzano as a Visiting Scholar. During her appointment, Catanzano will direct Penn Washington’s Project on the Future of U.S. Foreign Assistance, an initiative designed to bring together experts from academia, U.S. and foreign governments, philanthropy, multilateral institutions, and the nonprofit sector to assess the future of American foreign assistance programs and…
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is pleased to announce that PWH Faculty Fellow Fiona S. Cunningham has been selected to receive the 2025 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security (Princeton University Press, 2025).
